RSGC Senior School Master Plan

Farrow Partners was engaged to complete the Royal St. George’s College Senior School Master Plan following our work in the Junior and Middle Schools. The plan includes a comprehensive reconsideration of the existing 1970s building where learning spaces sit sandwiched between the historically-significant St. Alban’s Chapel and a large gymnasium. The master plan proposes a central atrium through the building to accomplish three goals: first, bringing new light and ventilation to a series of revamped state-of-the-art classrooms; second, creating new connectivity between the chapel, the gymnasium, and the learning spaces in-between; and third, creating new lively student breakout spaces across the school’s three storeys. This renovation is strategically phased across six packages of work that can be undertaken over the summer months, minimizing impact on operations during school terms.

The Master Plan includes a 6-classroom addition, with the potential to host another 6 classrooms in the future within a new wing that spans dramatically overtop a sunken playing field. The structural timber truss that facilitates this span is the defining tectonic gesture of the new building. Frosted glazed flooring in the central circulation and breakout space brings natural light through the new wing to the playing field below.

Also included in the Master Plan is a new Centre for the Arts - a renovation to the lower level of St. Alban’s Chapel that introduces new music, arts, and media classrooms, along with practice studios and a new student lounge - and a new Student Commons with an improved Learning Center. Construction of the Centre for the Arts was completed in September 2024, with construction of the Student Commons slated for June 2025.